WE SEE the return of Channel 4’s High Society season with this, the first of four documentaries examining secret scandals and notorious figures from the highest echelons of British life.

This month, we’ve seen the Queen and Prince Philip celebrating the milestone of 60 years of marriage.

But this programme looks behind the scenes of the royal wedding in November 1947. It was a day when we proudly flew flags and hosted a national celebration, but the young couple’s path to the altar had been strewn with controversy and difficulties.

Behind the stiff smiling faces and the colourful regalia of the photographs lay an incredible story